Here are quotes from Wilfred Trotter, FRS (1872 - 1939), who knew what from what. Many are relevant to cold fusion:
https://todayinsci.com/T/Trotter_Wilfred/TrotterWilfred-Quotations.htm Some good ones I have not seen before: If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage. It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense. However, it *was* noisy prejudice that caused cold fusion to lie dead for thirty years! Maybe forever. See also: http://amasci.com/weird/skepquot.html No one has described this subject better than Peter Hagelstein: https://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Hagelsteinontheoryan.pdf
